Moby attacked after show at Boston club
ByDec 12, 2002 11:00 PM
Moby was beaten and sprayed with mace by two men outside Boston’s Paradise Rock Club on Thursday morning (12/12).
Moby was beaten and sprayed with mace by two men outside Boston’s Paradise Rock Club on Thursday morning (12/12).
According to reports from Boston, the electronic artist was signing autographs outside the club after a performance when two men in their early 20s approached him and began beating him. When club security guards tried to intervene, the men sprayed Moby and the guards with mace before escaping.
According to police reports, Moby, 37, refused medical treatment.
Moby described the attack in his online tour diary on Thursday (12/12): “They punched me from behind and I really had no idea what was going on. I assumed that a bar-fight had spilled out of the bar and that somehow I had gotten caught in the middle of it. But no. After being punched in the head from behind a few times I turned around to see what was going on and one of them punched me in the face a couple of times and then they all ran away.”
He added that he held no grudge against his attackers. “I’m not angry. I don’t feel vindictive. Not to sound weird or wimpy, but I’m a pacifist and I believe in forgiveness. I just hope that at some point in these guy’s lives they come to realize that hurting other people is wrong.”
On Friday, the musician thanked fans for their “outpouring of support, but added that “I wasn’t all that badly hurt… I’m still left quite confused as to why these guys wanted to attack me, but I guess they had their reasons.”